Squicciarini Peter Quotes & Sayings

I never stole a joke in my life. I just find them before they're lost. — Milton Berle

There is a special department of Hell for students of probability. In this department there are many typewriters and many monkeys. Every time that a monkey walks on a typewriter, it types by chance one of Shakespeare's sonnets. — Bertrand Russell

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like. — Geraldine Ferraro

Helen

All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the lustre as of olives
where she stands,
and the white hands.

All Greece reviles
the wan face when she smiles,
hating it deeper still
when it grows wan and white,
remembering past enchantments
and past ills.

Greece sees, unmoved,
God's daughter, born of love,
the beauty of cool feet
and slenderest knees,
could love indeed the maid,
only if she were laid,
white ash amid funereal cypresses. — H.D.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience. — Joyce Cary

There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life. — Enrique Iglesias

As far as YU faculty and students are concerned, the love for Israel is very strong. Probably about three thousand of our graduates have settled in Israel. On average, every year 650 male and female students study in Israel for a minimum of one year. — Norman Lamm

To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge. — Maria Montessori

You're bleeding! Darrow! You're bleeding!" "I know." "Where is your hand? You're missing a fucking hand!" "I know!" "Bloodydamn. — Pierce Brown

Every picture taken of you reduces your spirit and shortens your life — Jandy Nelson

Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes. — Carl Sagan

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain. — Idries Shah

My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much. — Jenny Slate

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties. — Leslie Jamison